{"id":38357,"date":"2021-10-26T11:48:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T02:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/26\/bat-winning-by-quite-a-lot-in-new-zealands-bird-of-the-year-contest"},"modified":"2021-10-26T11:48:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T02:48:04","slug":"bat-winning-by-quite-a-lot-in-new-zealands-bird-of-the-year-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38357","title":{"rendered":"Bat \u2018winning by quite a lot\u2019 in New Zealand\u2019s Bird of the Year contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trailing the bat in second place was the k\u0101k\u0101p\u014d \u2013 a large, flightless parrot and the competition\u2019s reigning champ from last year<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s native birds have long been threatened by mammalian arrivals. Now, they are being thrashed by a mammal in the one arena that they might have expected dominance \u2013 the country\u2019s annual bird of the year competition.<\/p>\n<p>The election, run by Forest and Bird, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/11\/consternation-in-new-zealand-as-native-bat-included-in-bird-of-the-year-poll\">allowed a surprise entry<\/a> this year from the <a href=\"https:\/\/aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforestandbird.us2.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D056bc28505444958c9358e331%26id%3D7774668c29%26e%3D946d9146b3&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cl.keown%40forestandbird.org.nz%7Cacd544593b1d4c2c361f08d98c1bec78%7C347e3fddf0c64bf5b8e5f8bf019439ad%7C1%7C0%7C637694873832738295%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=%2FSvL14BA67FC0toGrmYD6RLdedBIKZxBmylmF8x%2FPl0%3D&amp;reserved=0\">pekapeka-tou-roa<\/a>, or long tailed bat, one of New Zealand\u2019s only land-based native mammals. On Tuesday, Forest and Bird officials confirmed to the Guardian that the bat is winning in current polls by a considerable margin.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/26\/bat-winning-by-quite-a-lot-in-new-zealands-bird-of-the-year-contest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trailing the bat in second place was the k\u0101k\u0101p\u014d \u2013 a large, flightless parrot and the competition\u2019s reigning champ from last yearNew Zealand\u2019s native birds have long been threatened by mammalian arrivals. Now, they are being thrashed by a mammal in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38358,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38357\/revisions\/38358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}